Indigenous Women Working Towards Improved Maternal Health

The Action Research to Advocacy Initiative (ARAI) forms part of a process to establish a common advocacy agenda across Health Unlimited projects worldwide. After consultation with Health Unlimited country managers in Summer 2004, it was agreed to focus on access to maternal health care services as a common issue across many of our programmes. Indigenous communities in Ratanakiri, Cambodia, where Health Unlimited has worked for 14 years, were selected to initiate the ARAI. The project aims to tackle the barriers indigenous communities face in accessing maternal health services through the development and implementation of an inclusive advocacy strategy.